19.0-Matrix Discussion

This behavior is due to a bad media file. I also see this sometimes when I have done a PVR recording and something went bad. Then I have to start every time from “0” and can’t seek forward as it will start from “0” again.

Please try this with another platform like Windows or Ubuntu with last Kodi nightly. If it also happen there open a issue with debug logs at xbmc: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues

Do not open a issue with logs from CE platform as this will get no attention as we modify Kodi source.

You have plex installed and when I am not wrong I think it is because of this addon. Please try again on a clean install.

new splash? Can you post a screenshot? I’m not going to switch to nightlies for it, but I am curious.

The green Matrix splash does not look good on an oled tv. Maybe if the background was black, but not the washed out grey it is now.

Apart from that I’m enjoying Matrix very much! (so basically I’m nitpicking)

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Yeah the matrix splash looks really bad on my oled too.

Is it possible to put the new splash from the nightly into the stable matrix?

no, just use nightly

Hi,
For me this workaround was working.

  1. Put my actual CE 2.6.0 SD Card in my Computer
  2. copied only the .kodi folder on this computer (must see hidden files)
  3. DL and write image of K19 on card and put it in N2 for first booting
  4. Put back this card in PC, delete the .kodi folder on card and copied the saved on from PC on the card.
  5. Put back card or EMMC into N2 and everything was there like on 2.6.0 (maybe 2-3 addons which wasn’t updated at this time)

PS: I use mysql as database for Kodi on my Debian-File-Server
2 PS: if your pc can’t read linux partition, you must do it over ssh and before copying/deleting stop kodi running via terminal. Workaround about that, you should find here.

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Thanks ! I’ll try that.
PS: I have a notebook on Linux I use for an ham radio application, so I can use this to read and write back from / on the Linux partition. Thanks for the tip !

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Looks nearly like this, only grey(??) if I remember from yesterday correctly and the keep the pulsating thing in logo part… I love it… cause I love dark backgrounds or dark mode on my apple devices… I hate white screens that burns your eyes out… that’s so 2000 :rofl:


Please ignore the double CoreELEC writing, error in taking screen from web :wink:

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I have now set the gui to 4096 × 216024Hz and have not created a white list. The media material is scaled up to the above resolution. Everything now runs smoothly. Goal achieved.

But I would still like to know why the other resolutions are no longer displayed correctly at 24Hz.

thanks to all who helped.

Your right I have composite installed don’t use it much though, disable composite seems to fix it rebooted 4 times now and no error.
I have had the add-on installed over a year and never had this issue before todays nightly.

Sorry to bump this, but is there anything I can try before installing everything again?
Is this a known issue?
I want to correct the info about “720 60Hz”, the TV reports “1080 60Hz” when trying the boot from SD. If I remove the card it boots normally from eMMc.

Hello, here I am again with my h265 and CE problem. And in my opinion it’s not card related, because I bought a new SD card and problem persist. So I did a couple of tests and here is, what I found.
Everything is working great on CE9.2.5, no lagging, video is nice and smooth.
log: http://ix.io/2Tde
ce-debug: http://ix.io/2Tdf
CE 9.2.7 - problem is coming
log: http://ix.io/2Tds
ce-debug: http://ix.io/2Tdt
CE19 - problem persist
log: http://ix.io/2TdR
ce-debug: http://ix.io/2TdS
Setup is not changing, only CE versions.
result: I am staying on 9.2.5
Thank you for any help or advice

You said something different last time

I don’t know exactly what you mean and I am sorry for any misunderstandings.
Is there anything else I can do to solve this, more info or something like that?

I think you said that it was working on 9.2.6 then stopped and you wrote it was the sd card. But ok. Have you tried CE19 nightly already? There was a fix for h265 iirc.

Again, I’m sorry, I’m still learning in a short steps. My last CE19 log is from 19.0-Matrix_nightly_20210317.

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Do these playback issues only happen with “.mp4” files? Do you have any “.mkv” files to test. I had an issue with 2 particular .mp4 files, I would get a skip during playback when I upgraded to 9.2.6, 9.2.7 or CE 19. These files were perfect at 9.2.5. The skip always occurred in the same place, but it was a very rare occurrence.

There were 2 ways to fix it. The easiest was to use a free PC tool called “mkvmerge” to remux the .mp4 to an .mkv file - this only takes a few seconds per video. These mkv files playback perfectly with all releases. The second option was to make use of an “autostart.sh” file to set a particular value to 12 or 16 (your choice). The start of this thread is linked below. The second link details how remuxing from mp4 to mkv fixed it for me. Hope this helps in some way:-

check out wiki for advanced settings, you can configure to import / export watched status (and also resume points) then export your DB as separate files selecting only .nfo. kodi will then drop the nfo’s is same dir as the media it relates to. when you re-build your lib it will pick up watched / resume point status as before (and also keep the ‘added to’ date if you like to sort you movies by the date they were added…)

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if building back clean, backup nox from addons and addon_data, and also skin shortcuts from addonds and addon_data. drop them in after upgrade, then update the addons and you customization should still be there (provided you made the customization with nox gui) if you manually dropped stuff in (like i do with a custom ‘sky tv’ style pvr guide) those will be gone. if you are doing an in situ upgrade, customization made in nox gui should survive the upgrade…

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Hi everyone.

First of all, I would like to thank you for your wonderful work :slight_smile:

I have an X96 (S905X | 2 / 16GB) android box with atxexperience v4 (Android 9 PIE) firmware uploaded. Everything works OK on Android, while COREELEC does not work with 1 USB port (I need both).

I even brought an independent 5V power supply to the USB sockets and the portable drive can be heard that it works but there is no communication with it.

Is there any chance this will work? I am using device tree “gxl_p212_2g”

Regards and I am asking for help.